The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore, Hardcover/Robert Finch
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Those who have encountered Cape Cod--or merely dipped into an
account of its rich history--know that it is a singular place.
Robert Finch writes of its beaches: "No other place I know sears
the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain,
of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment." And nowhere
within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along
the forty miles of Atlantic coast--what Finch has always known as
the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a
cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the
Cape's legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature's fury:
shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious
seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions
conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and
insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk;
engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape's fabled
lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even
encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the
other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch
pays tribute to the Outer Beach's impressive literary legacy,
meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange,
mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every
experience and observation--both pivotal and quotidian--is the
essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims
to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught
between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference?Finch's
affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished
by the Cape's staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and
strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless
by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.
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